The pronunciation of "pseudo"?

[Pyan]

My personal favorite is et cetera. I'm a high school drop out and I know how to pronounce it. The number of highly educated people who say ex cetra is staggering...

Ah - you mean like a small strong black coffee - an expresso...

 

[althea]

The P in swimming pool is silent.

 

[Boneman]

Be more pacific winds me up. Or people ashuming they know what they're talking about...

 

[althea]

People saying pelanty for penalty and chimley for chimney make me cross.

 

[Venusian Broon]

My dictionary has:: pseu·do \ˈsü-(ˌ)dō\

google::ˈso͞odō/
//ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/pseudo.mp3

Now how do you tell your daughter that her teacher is not right?
psuedo-english perhaps.

My dictionary and Bing, interesting, has the different: [sju:dəʊ] which although I'm not up to speed on pronunciation symbols (could it be that there are different schemes???) seems to be in line with everyone else here!

 

[AStormCloud'sSong]

I live in the UK and I just realised I had been saying schedule wrong all these years. I say it sked-duel while everyone else says shed-duel

 

[Vladd67]

Not to mention people who say I could care less, when they mean they couldn't care less. Don't make me go all David Mitchell on the subject.

 

[thaddeus6th]

StormCloud, I say 'sked-duel'. Those other persons are clearly wrongist mispronouncers.

 

[Vladd67]

I believe shed duel is British English whereas sked duel is American English.

 

[AStormCloud'sSong]

I believe shed duel is British English whereas sked duel is American English.

I think my speech is americanized in a lot of ways. For example, I've always said z as zee rather than zed. I'm still a huge fan of British slang and swears. They have that bite that American stuff just doesn't have

 

[thaddeus6th]

Vladd, is that a true or an assumed difference? (By that, I mean is it like organise/organize? People assume the former is British, the latter American, but both are British [and the latter American], it's just a difference between the Oxford and, er, another dictionary. But because Americans only use the Z, people falsely assume the S is *the* British way).

Also, schedule is still right. And I'm going to keep using 'gotten' as well.

Ages ago, saw a little Youtube video about slang in some American mountains. Rural area, but quite a lot of the terms were familiar to me.

/endramble

 

[RX-79G]

Are we going to get into the phantom F in lieutenant?

 

[Ursa major]

"Leftenant" is obviously right....

 

[Pyan]

Are we going to get into the phantom F in lieutenant?

Or the mysterious "r" in colonel...

 

[RX-79G]

Or the mysterious "r" in colonel...

Ls and Rs are similar and often interchanged, but "coronel" was one of the French source words for "colonel", so it is more a question of when the R sound completely departed. However, in the American south the R is not particularly evident.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

People saying pelanty for penalty and chimley for chimney make me cross.

Ok, I've seen it written in British books, people saying "chimbley", but pelanty? Who does that?

 

[Alex The G and T]

People from a newkahler family, no doubt.

 

[dask]

Ok, I've seen it written in British books, people saying "chimbley", but pelanty? Who does that?

Probably a typo. They creep into manuscripts every once in a while.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Probably a typo. They creep into manuscripts every once in a while.

But she said "saying", not "writing". I can't imagine anyone saying that.

 

[Hex]

People who are dyslexic or not very well educated or children switch words like this around quite a lot. My youngest still says "aminal"...